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Laurie Anderson

"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician
Work, Variety
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"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher
Work, Jokes
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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor
Work, Liberty, Practice
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet
Work, Despair
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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic
Work, People, Care, Media
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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown
Work, Effort, Results
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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown
Work, Boss, Success, Retirement, Life
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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author
Work, Theory, Values, Meaning
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"On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing."

Jean Stapleton, American Actress
Work, Beginning, Day, End
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"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."

Frank Stallone, American Actor
Work, Trying

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"The problem with prototypes is they don't always work."
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"I think women are excellent social critics."
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"I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex."
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"If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it."
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"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
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"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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